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Wow, Some People Are Really Dumb

by Josh Marshall
09.24.13 | 8:28 am

The CEO of AIG (one of the prime beneficiaries of massive government largesse at the height of the 2008 economic crisis) compares the outrage over excessive bonuses to AIG employees to the lynchings of African-Americans in the South in the first half of the 20th century.

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